Author Bio

I am Austin-based storyteller and emerging author exploring themes of growing up in the South, parenthood during a time of significant personal and social change, loss, and resilience. I’ve found “looking at the hard stuff” through memoir and personal essay helps me better understand and process my past while connecting with my readers.

When not writing or working, you’ll find me enjoying live music with my family (we live in Austin, after all), painting, or telling stories on stages.

I’m in the final throes of finalizing my memoir about facing my past, learning the meaning of parental love and sacrifice, and finding my own voice through my experience as the lead juror on the 2006 retrial of Andrea Yates. Due to postpartum psychosis imprinted with aberrant, extreme religious beliefs, Andrea tragically drowned her five children in the family bathtub one June 20, 2001. At the time of the second trial, our son was six months old — almost the exact same age as the Yates’ youngest, Mary, at the time of her death.